The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 61

He did not know what to do with himself when he saw that she was gone, but before she went she had given him a little rod, with which he could, when he pleased, waken the men who had been sleeping there, some of them for sixteen years.

Who acts: Irishman, Princess, men · What happens: not know, do, see, be, go, give · To what, where: little rod, Irishman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, Princess, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 himself	case
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 do	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 gone	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	cop
16	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saw	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 given	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 given	cc
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	21 went	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 given	advcl
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 given	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 given	aux
24	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 know	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 given	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 rod	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rod	amod
28	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 given	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pleased	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 could	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 could	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 pleased	aux
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 pleased	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 pleased	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 pleased	nsubj
37	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 given	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 waken	punct
39	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 men	det
41	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 some	nsubj
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 sleeping	nsubj
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 sleeping	aux
44	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 sleeping	aux
45	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 men	acl:relcl
46	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 sleeping	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 some	punct
48	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	39 waken	advmod
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 them	case
50	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 some	nmod
51	for	for	ADP	_	53 years	case
52	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 years	nummod
53	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 waken	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	Irishman						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive						with Irishman	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	see	past	Irishman						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	Princess					gone property	tree rules
5	go	past	Princess						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	past · perfect	Princess	a little rod	Irishman				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rod=Theme
7	waken	infinitive	Irishman not said here				year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	sleep	past · perfect · progressive	the men			there			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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